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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Erica Mann Jong
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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